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...Quicker Solution. In some areas, a quicker solution is being used: the conversion of old hotels. Oldsters like them because they are conveniently near bustling business districts. Two old hotel chains-the MacArthur with 15 hotels, and the Weaver with 21-have united to form a chain throughout the South and the Midwest, called Senior Citizens Hotels Inc. They are converting several floors of each hotel for retirement living. There is a recreation room and kitchen, ramps instead of stairways where possible. Rents range from $35 a month for a room without meals to $125 for a bath and three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: New Homes for Old Folks | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Brazilian Amazon Development Agency lent him $125,000 to start his rubber and Brazil nut groves, but since they take seven years before they bear fruit, he planted sugar cane for a quicker crop. It grew fast- 18 ft. high. To make the most of it he had to process it into a product he could sell locally. Friends in Texas dug up $30,000 to build the distillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Jim's Jungle Juice | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Intuitively, I thought the quicker we did this the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: In One Big Gulp | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...Pope Pius XII on the subject: "Morals evidently condemn mercy killing, that is, the intention to cause death. But if a dying person consents, it is permissible to use with moderation narcotics that will allay his suffering but will also cause quicker death . . . In this case, death is not the direct intention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modified Euthanasia | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...painful allergic reactions. Worse, the injections carried the danger of fatal encephalitis or paralysis, because they contained material from rabbit brains. Last week researchers in New York City's Department of Health reported that a modified vaccine made by growing the virus in fertilized duck eggs gives quicker protection, is safer and causes few unpleasant reactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: After the Bite | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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